Overshoe-securer



(No Model.)

J, L. GOURLEY. oVEBsHoE SBGURBR.

No; 440,148. Patented Nv. 11, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

JOHN L. GOURLEY, OF TARENTUM, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO VVILLIAM N. ANOHORS, OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA,

OVERSHOE-SECURER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,148, dated November 11 1890. Application filed May 6, 1890. Serial No. 350,830. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. GOURLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tarentum, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rubber Overshoe-Securers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use' the sane.

The special object of the invention is to connect an overshoe with the inside shoe, so that the former cannot be pulled off and lost in the mud.

Figure 1 of the drawings shows my overshoesecurerfastened to the top of the hind quarter of an inside and outside shoe; Fig. 2, a detail view of the clasp before and after it is bent; and Fig. 3 a detail View of the hook before and after it is bent.

In the drawings, A represents a flexible strap, on one end of which I fasten the elasp B. The latter is made with the body b, the prongs b' b', and the prongs b2 122, the body b being laid down and the end of strap laid over it. Then the prongs b' b' are bent down across the end of strap,when the body b is doubled or folded at its middle, thus also folding over the end of strap. This secures the clasp very tightly to the end of strap. The prongs 62 192 are now bent at right angles to the body b,

passed through the npper portion of the heelquarter, and bent over toward each other until they press the inside of the overshoe. On 3 5 the other end of the strap A, I attach the hook C, which has a shank c with two side arms c' c', by placing the end ot strap upon the shank and folding the arms c' c' toward each other on the strap, where they are fastened 40 by indentation With a blunt punch. This causes the hook C to be held very seourely to the' strap.

In the heel of the inside shoe I fasten the eyeD by passing the wire strands or ends d d, which form the shank of the eye, through a hole made for that purpose in the shoe. I then bend the wires in opposite directions. However, Ido not confine myself to any particular way of securing the eye D to the shoe.

What I clain as new, and desire to proteot by Letters Patent, is-

The flexible strap A, carrying on one end the clasp B, made with a body b and p'rongs b' b' 192192, and on the other end a hook C,with the side arms c' c', in combination With the eye D, having ends d d, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix ny signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN Il. GOURLEY.

Witnesses:

CARsoN N. REED, E. W. ANoHoRS. 

